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Currently, the only accurate diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease is through postmortem analyses after a patient dies, but investigators have now developed a highly sensitive method for quantifying levels of tau protein—a hallmark of the condition—in cerebrospinal fluid surrounding the brain…

A novel long-term study of how vaccine-related fears influence flu shot outcomes has found that these fears not only reduce vaccination, but also fuel symptoms of dizziness and lightheadedness at the time of the injection. These fears can have such…

John F. DiPersio, MD, PhD, the Virginia E. and Sam J. Golman Endowed Professor of Oncology and director of the Division of Oncology at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, has been named by OncLive as part of…

Simultaneous administration of COVID-19 mRNA booster and influenza vaccines may increase the likelihood of systemic reactions, according to a study published online July 15 in JAMA Network Open. Anne M. Hause, Ph.D., from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and…

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Strokes are the world’s second most common cause of both death and long-term disability. One in four adults over the age of 25 will suffer a stroke in their lifetime. If a blood clot in the brain cannot be removed…

Short sleep duration is causally associated with an increased risk for rheumatoid arthritis (RA), according to a study published online June 30 in Frontiers in Public Health. Rui-Chen Gao, from the School of Nursing at Anhui Medical University in Hefei,…

In a recent article posted to the bioRxiv* preprint server, investigators analyzed whether Mexican free-tailed bats were a severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) reservoir. Study: Experimental infection of Mexican free-tailed bats (Tadarida brasiliensis) with SARS-CoV-2. Image Credit: Rudmer Zwerver/Shutterstock…

The aggregation of the beta-amyloid protein into insoluble deposits in the brain is a hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease. A recent study shows that replacing blood in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease with blood from healthy wild-type mice could slow…